“Every group spends more when its income grows.”

Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones that happened in 1929 and 2008.

Prescriptive regulations, such as telling electric utilities what kinds of coal to burn or what kinds of scrubbers to install on their smokestacks, were not only intrusive, they were also grossly inefficient.

In almost every instance, air and water quality goals were met more cheaply and quickly when we taxed pollution than when we tried to regulate it directly.

I’m happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I’ve finally got a great group of friends. I’ve got a lovely little flat and my work’s here.

I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?

Anytime you get a group of people, they’re going to have different ideas and they’re going to want to approach situations in different ways.

Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it’s not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.